Li Tianyang has been in a good mood these days, and He Yong's entourage from Dongjiang Island not only brought a large number of livestock needed by the Bengang team, but also established a stable trade route with Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town.

At the same time, He Yong also brought back an exciting news, in Liaodong in the first month, the Ming Dynasty according to the envoy, Yuan Chonghuan, who guarded Ningyuan, and his generals Man Gui, Zuo Fu, Zhu Mei, Zu Dashou, etc., as well as garrisoned He Kegang, the queen Jin Nurhaci more than 100,000 troops under the city.

At this time, Nurhachi's army has successively captured seven cities such as Jinzhou and Songshan, and the Ming army is wailing, and the Houjin army that pursued by victory wanted to take Ningyuan in one go, but in the end it returned under the countless artillery on Ningyuan City!

Even Nurhachi, who was the lord of Jin Xiong at that time, Li Tianyang, who could rarely know his name and surname, was affected by artillery in this battle, and according to the grapevine, he was seriously injured.

Ningyuan City was frustrated, and the Houjin army turned to attack Juehua Island, the granary of Liaodong, in a vain attempt to seize the uncounted grain and grass population on the island, and finally was taken by Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town, and attacked Yongning, causing the Houjin defense to be unstable, and finally retreated.

This is a rare victory in the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse, when the good news arrived in Beijing from Liaodong, the dynasty celebrated, and the Beijing division shook.

He Yong was able to know the movement of this war so well, thanks to the chief military officer Mao Wenlong, who was on the rise at the time, and regarded this matter as a great brilliant achievement in his life to show off.

However, when He Yong reported these detailed facts of the battle situation in Liaodong to Li Tianyang one by one, Li Tianyang was actually deeply afraid in his heart!

In Li Ruyi's vague memories, it seems that there was such a battle in later history, and it seems that the rumor that Nurhachi was seriously injured by shelling in Liaodong also matches Li Tianyang's only historical memory.

But what others don't know is that the eleven red-coated cannons that made great contributions in this battle were almost captured by the effort.

Li Tianyang couldn't imagine that if he really tried his best to bring these eleven red-clothed cannons under his command, would there still be this famous Ning Yuan victory for future generations?

With the good relationship between Li Tianyang and the Portuguese in Macao, how could the information that the Ming Dynasty sent people to Macao to purchase cannons not be known by Li Tianyang?

At that time, Li Tianyang thought about seeing if he could mediate and buy the red-coated cannons purchased by the Portuguese for the Ming Dynasty, at least half of the red-coated cannons should be shared.

For Hong Tang, who was replacing the warship, the caliber and power of the guns carried on the "Yang Fan-style" battleship were no longer comparable to the 400 Fufu ships. Therefore, by the time the freshly cast "Yang Fan" warship was put into service, the thousand-pound Franc machine guns carried on the 400-material warship would not only be insufficient to give full play to the advantages of the "Yang Fan" warship, but would inevitably bring a big gap in the number of artillery fire.

Although in recent years, the cooperation between Bengang R&D Park and Jiangzuofang, led by Chengcai, has been continuous, and the casting technology of artillery has been steadily improving, but if you really want to achieve high-power artillery like Westerners, Bengang is still a little bit behind.

Therefore, Bengang more often purchased a large number of large-caliber artillery through the Portuguese and the Dutch, but under the seller's market, although in order to maintain the relationship with the powerful Hongtang, the two groups of Westerners spared no effort to maintain a good relationship with Bengang, but the voyage between Europe and the Ming Dynasty was more than half a year, so that Li Tianyang's idea of large-scale purchase of high-power artillery failed.

Therefore, when he learned that the Ming Dynasty officially purchased eleven red-coated cannons from the Portuguese, Li Tianyang was playing with the idea of these eleven cannons.

In the end, Li Tianyang and their stupid port still couldn't resist the Ming Dynasty, which had weight in the eyes of the Portuguese, so even if Li Tianyang tried his best to coerce and induce, he still couldn't let the Portuguese relax.

In addition, the Dutch governor of Java at that time did not know where to hear the news that the Portuguese had trafficked more than ten cannons to the Far East. However, they mistakenly thought that these cannons were used by the Portuguese to maintain good relations with Bengang, and in order to save the relationship between their empire and Bengang, the governor of Java asked them to hurriedly transport the eight cannons that had been delayed for more than three months to Bengang and deliver them to Li Tianyang.

In this way, with this batch of artillery in hand, Li Tianyang reluctantly gave up fighting for this batch of red-coated cannons.

Who would have thought that this batch of cannons would have left such a heavy mark in history, Li Tianyang could not imagine that if he really wanted to take these cannons by unscrupulous means, then the history of later generations would probably be turned upside down.

Now that Li Tianyang thinks about it carefully, the whole person is covered in cold sweat, without the joy of the Ming Dynasty's victory over a strong enemy, and more worried about the terrible consequences brought about by the various changes in history in his mind.

However, it is clear that the rolling wheels of history are still running according to his inherent trajectory, and Nurhachi disappeared from the crowd after this battle, until Huang Taiji succeeded him a few months later; Yuan Chonghuan was reused by the court because of this battle, and was promoted from the Ming Dynasty to the right attendant of the military department and the governor of Liaodong, and then he was at odds with the general Mangui under his command, and asked the court to transfer Mangui out of Liaodong, and history repeated itself again.

Of course, this war is also a big opportunity for Bengang, because Jin Yongning City was successfully captured after Mao Wenlong's sneak attack, and this time Mao Wenlong's backlog of various materials, population, and livestock is also very rich.

Last time, He Yong easily caught up with Mao Wenlong's relationship, of course, because Mao Wenlong took a fancy to the business name that came to Dongjiang Island to trade, but it was not because Mao Wenlong was worried that he had nowhere to distribute a large number of gains in his hands!

The silver money and grain He Yong brought last time was only enough to replace so many livestock, but the backlog of cattle, horses, and livestock in Mao Wenlong's hands was far more than that.

Therefore, after He Yong transported back more than 1,000 livestock, under Li Tianyang's instructions, he quickly took all the grain and silver money again and set off to the north, and traded with Mao Wenlong again before the other merchants had finished carving up the huge gains in Mao Wenlong's hands.

For the sake of this transaction, Li Tianyang even emptied the entire vault of Bengang, leaving no money for himself, and went north with He Yong, in addition to more than 20 cargo ships with more than 1,000 materials in the port, there were also ten "Yang Fan" warships as frigates and transport ships.

It is rare to have such an opportunity to buy livestock on a large scale, Li Tianyang will never let it go easily, and the impact of not having enough livestock on the development of Bengang in recent years is beyond everyone's imagination.

In particular, in recent years, there have been too many casualties in Hongtang, which has caused a vacancy in the backbone of cultivation in Hong Kong, and the burden on Bengang is really great after the busy farming in each season.

(End of chapter)